Implementation of investment activity of integrated structures with participation of leasing companies

At present the role of the integrated structures significantly increases in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the legislation of Ukraine pays not enough attention to the regulation of activity of integrated structures. At the same time foreign experience testifies that the basis of integration processes consists in consolidation of resources of participants of structure. However there are objective restrictions on possibilities of intra group financing of integrated structures and there is a need of external financing. In such conditions the allocations of one participant, capable to carry out the function of the investment center of integrated structure, will be the most effective. The leasing company can become such a participant. As the investment center it can carry out both the leasing activity functions and the functions of the investment center of the integrated structure – the organizational center of investment activity and participation in the marketing program of the integrated structure. The functioning of the association of the enterprises with participation of a leasing company is possible only in regions of Ukraine with high concentration of industrial and financial capital from which Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Odessa areas are observed. After analising economic indicators of industrial production of Donetsk region it seems possible to come to a conclusion that in the region there are extremely favorable conditions for formation of associations of the enterprises with participation of the investment center in the form of the leasing company. On the basis of available statistical information the conclusion is drawn that the leasing mechanism of investment activity practicallyisn't used. At the same time, financing of 50% of investments by means of financial leasing allows receiving 80% growth of investments. It allows speaking about considerable prospects of participation of leasing companies in the course of overcoming the economic crisis.